HKUST CTF Team Won 2nd Place in PwC Hackaday 2017

PwC (PricewaterhouseCooper) held their first Inter-University Capture
The Flag (CTF) "PwC
Hackaday 2017" contest. A total of nine teams joined the contest and
each university is allowed two teams. After a six-hour contest, HKUST CTF
teams, Firebird1 and Firebird2, won the 2nd place and 5th place,
respectively. Firebird teams needed to tackle 15 different jeopardy-style
challenges using binary-level reverse engineering and exploitation. They
also needed to solve networking, web, and cryptographic problems.

The second place winners will be awarded internships at PwC Hong Kong
and China's Cybersecurity abd Privacy team for up to 3 months. In
addition, PwC will sponsor half of the cost of the Offensive Security
Certified Professional (OSCP) certification.

Congratulations to the Firebirds and a special thank-you the coaches,
CTF team volunteer coaches including Anthony LAI, Zetta KE, Alan HO and
Kelvin WONG of the CSE CyberSecurity Lab. The students worked hard to
reach their limit and tackle the challenges. What's specially noteworthy
is that we have women hackers to in our CTF team. They are both from the
business school of HKUST and they gave an outstanding performance.